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AFter this, the Prophet beginneth to pray: yet is this prayer a prophecie also: Lord how long wilt thou turne away? (thy face) for euer? as is said else-where: * 1.1
H•…•… long wilt thou turne thy face from mee: Some bookes read it in the (a) passiue, but it may bee vnderstood of GODS mercy also, in the a•…•…iue: For euer, that is, vnto the end: which end, is the last times, when that nation shall beleeue in CHRIST, before which time it is to suffer all those myseries that hee bewaileth. Wherefore it followeth: Shall thy 〈◊〉〈◊〉 burne like fire? O remember of what I am; my substance. Heere is no∣thing fitter to bee vnderstood, then IESVS, the substance of this people: for hence hee had his flesh.
Didst thou create the children of men in vaine? Vnlesse there were one sonne of man, of the substance of Israel, by whome a multitude should bee saued, they were all created in vaine indeede: For now all the seede of man is fallen by the first man from truth to vanitie: Man is like to vanitie (saith the Psalme) his dayes vanish like a shadowe. Yet did not GOD create all * 1.2 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in vaine, for hee freeth many from vanitie by CHRIST the media∣•…•… his Sonne, and such as hee knoweth will not bee freed, hee maketh vse of, to the good of the free, and the greater eminence of the two Citties: Thus is there good reason for the creation of all reasonable creatures.
It followeth. What man liueth that shall not see death? or shall free his soule 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the hand of hell? Why none but CHRIST IESVS the substance of Israell, and the sonne of Dauid: of whome the Apostle saith: Who bee∣ing * 1.3 •…•…ysed from death, dyeth no more: death hath no more dominion ouer him. •…•…or hee liueth and shall not see death, But freed his soule from the hand of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, because hee descended into the lower parts to loose some (b) 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the bonds of sinne: by that power that the Euangelist recordeth of 〈◊〉〈◊〉. I haue power to laye downe my soule, and I haue power to take it vppe * 1.4 〈◊〉〈◊〉▪
IN (a) the passiue] So readeth not the vulgar: but in the actiue. The Greekes indeede 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Wilt thou bee turned away. (b) From the bonds] The bonds of hell, say 〈◊〉〈◊〉 •…•…kes, making this earth an hell vnto Christ, beeing descended from heauen: but 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 reading is better.
Psal. 89.
Psal. 1•…•…4▪ 〈◊〉〈◊〉
Rom. 6. 9.
Ioh. 10.